The current wave of measles cases in the US provides an opportunity to see what the disease does to the unvaccinated, the new head of the government’s vaccine advisory group says. In a wide ranging ...

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) will share details of its Palestinian staff with Israel in order to keep working in Gaza and the West Bank, the charity has said. Despite previously refusing to share ...

Palestinians have described being raped, beaten, and attacked by dogs at the hands of prison staff in a graphic new report by Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem.1 The Israel Prison Service ...

NHS England is to lower the detection threshold for a home screening kit to trigger bowel cancer screening from next month in a move it says will lead to earlier diagnosis and treatment for thousands ...

The UK has lost its measles elimination certification after the disease circulated continuously for more than a year. Outbreaks began in late 2023 and intensified through 2024, with a total of 2911 ...

US immigration agents are using an app developed by Palantir that draws on the health records of millions of Americans to find and detain illegal immigrants. The revelation comes as the US’s ...

Trust has always been central to healthcare and is especially important in the relationship between clinicians and patients. But trust is not automatic. It is shaped by the actions and decisions, ...

Proponents of the amendment rightly highlight the dangers of excessive and addictive social media use. A 2023 systematic review by Viner et al. in *The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health* concluded that ...